How do you use Absorption?

[Wahooka]

Hello forum,

The Absorption ability allows you to "draw on Places of Power" twice a day. I'm not sure what this means, or how you use this ability.

Recently I was at a "Place of Power" and it just gave me the option to perform the "Magic Ritual", I'm not really sure what that accomplished, it isn't explained.

Can someone help?

Thank you in advance.

[Ragnarök]

There are certain spots in the game that have these bluish, lightningy looking distortions floating in the air. If you click on them, you can gain bonuses to your signs temporarily making them better among other effects. Once you use the distortions, they disappear for a day or so and then respawn. The power presumably let's you draw from them twice a day rather than once, probably by making the distortions respawn quicker.

That being said, it's not exactly the most useful skill to have in the game.

[Wahooka]

Thank you for the answer.

Okay, so the re-spawing happens automatically, you can't actually click on anything to make it happen?

And this "magic ritual" is nothing more then just giving bonuses to your signs?

If you have other abilities, will it give you the option to do the Magic Ritual and also the Cleansing Ritual at the same time, or do you have to pick just one?

[Ragnarök]

Originally posted by Wahooka:

Thank you for the answer.

Okay, so the re-spawing happens automatically, you can't actually click on anything to make it happen?

And this "magic ritual" is nothing more then just giving bonuses to your signs?

If you have other abilities, will it give you the option to do the Magic Ritual and also the Cleansing Ritual at the same time, or do you have to pick just one?

It doesn't give you the option to pick bonuses, it's either buffed signs, health regen or something to do with toxicity reduction. Basically, I'd draw from the places if they were convienient, but I certainly never went out of my way to find one. They respawn after a while, but by the time they do the effects of the current one will have probably worn off, so I doubt they'd stack if it was the same effect. In theory, different effects can be applied at once but the places of power are rarely located anywhere that close to eachother so it's pretty irrelevent.

[Ragnarök]

Ignore what I just said, it does give you an option to pick the ritual and bonus. I guess not knowing that shows how little I bothered with that mechanic.

[Wahooka]

Thanks!

Is there a way to see how long the bonuses last?

I hope my game doesn't have a glitch, it seems like the Places of Power menu is a bit buggy.

It asks me "You have found a Place of Power. What do you want to do?" and there is just a picture of an arrow on the bottom right with an empty black screen at the bottom. Then I left click the mouse anywhere, and it gives me a new menu, I select "Magic Ritual" and then another menu screen appears with an arrow at the bottom but nothing happens. Then I have to left click AGAIN, and then it works.

Is it supposed to be like that?

Also, I wonder why the Magic Ritual is not explained in the instructions, but I guess you explained it, thanks.

[Tusnayoshi]

It happened to me too, it is normal to have that arrow in the option icon.

To check how long bonuses last, just hover the mouse over the symbols on the upper left, it is where your medallion is. Each bonus got a different color and symbol, whose shape are not clear to see due to being too small.

[Wahooka]

Thanks for the help!